Listed Building record MDO9470 - Fleur-de-Lys Inn, Wimborne Street, Cranborne

A timber-framed inn built in the sixteenth century, but subject to much later alteration. For example, it was cased in brick in the eighteenth century. The two-storey building has a tiled roof.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 213726 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 13 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(6) THE FLEUR-DE-LIS INN (05571326), of two storeys with brick walls and tiled roofs, dates from the 16th century, but has been much altered. The walls, originally of timber framework, were cased in brick late in the 18th century.
The roof of the original range is of oak with heavy tie-beam trusses, one with scissor-bracing, others with cambered collar-beams; these support two purlins on each side and retain some curved wind-braces. In the N.W. wing the roof is of similar construction, the purlins resting on the wind-braces of the E.-W. roof; one truss has a lower king-strut.
The ground-floor rooms of both ranges have intersecting beams with shaped stops; mortices in the soffits indicate former partitions. The N.W. wing retains part of a beam with ogee and ovolo mouldings and shaped stops.’

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